Reg Expr bugs in vi? - (nf)

Mark Plotnick mp at mit-eddie.UUCP
Fri Sep 30 10:01:50 AEST 1983


Sorry, it's still not a bug.  if you're positioned at a piece of text
that matches the regular expression, it skips it and finds the next
piece of text that matches the regular expression.  Why?  Because
it's useful to be able to step through a file while stopping at
every point that matches a given regular expression; if the string
of characters right after the cursor were a candidate for r.e. searching,
then repeated searches for the same r.e. wouldn't move you at all!
	Mark



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